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Riverside Writers and Rochdale Writes Online Group
Thursday 10th September 10am -12noon – Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside On Thursday this week our session will be led by Glenis Meeks. Glenis is known for her lovely descriptive writing and the session is sure to be full of inspiration and chances to create new work and, for those that wish, to share…
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Online Group and Riverside Writers weekly session
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in Blog, Event, Fiction, Flash, Group, Open mic, performance, Poetry, Prose, Spoken word, Uncategorized, Workshops, WritingRiverside Writers – Thursday 16th July 10am – 12noon, Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Rochdale Riverside Writers this week will be a chance to learn and improve skills for reading (performing) your work to an audience and using a microphone. The session will be delivered by Seamus and Eileen and is a great chance…
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Roch-Tales – Thurs 9th July – Places Still Available
The Ukrainian Club, 15 Mere Street, Rochdale 6.30pm to 9.00pm Apologies for a 3rd post in a couple of days – but this promises to be a great event with some very highly regarded short story writers. There are still plenty of spaces available so can either book online with the following link, or encourage…
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Poetry Café CANCELLED
Following our earlier post and emails, we have received a message from the café that the Poetry Café for 9th July has had to be cancelled at short notice due to staffing issues. Poetry Café takes a Summer break in August so there will be no session in that month. I will send out information…
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Apologies – the earlier post should have referred to: Online – 23rd June and Riverside – 25th June
Please take note of the correct dates as shown above.
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Correction re. This Week’s Workshop
Just a brief update to correct the message I sent out at the weekend. This week the Workshop will actually be delivered by the wonderful Eileen Earnshaw and we will be taking a look at some of the American poets. Secondly a reminder that the Rochdale Writes Online Writing Group session takes place this evening…
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Marching into Spring
The first week of March is another one full of creative writing opportunities and events. Tuesday 3rd, 6pm to 8pm – Poetry Café, Coffee on the Corner, Littleborough A welcoming and supportive open mic style evening with great poetry and atmosphere. The event is free so please support our venue by purchasing some of…
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February starts with plenty of creative writing
This week there are several great creative writing events in Rochdale as well as our own weekly Riverside Writers session. Here are the details in brief: Monday 2nd February, Northern Rascals, 5pm to 6.30pm, Rochdale Northern Rascals are bringing a special creative session to Richard Street Studios on Monday and have invited members and…
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Not sure I ever liked him anyway
Rochdale Central Library Thursday 27th November – 10am to 12noon “Not sure I ever liked him anyway” is the title for a workshop from Riverside Writers’ Eileen Earnshaw focused on character development. Whenever you create a story, whatever genre it falls into, you’ll need to create suitably interesting characters. This is the session to…
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Remembrance workshop
Thursday 13th November, 10am – 12noon Rochdale Central Library In the week where those killed in war are remembered the Riverside Writers workshop, themed on remembrance, will be delivered by Ray Stearn. As always our workshops are open to anyone aged 18+, you just need to bring something to write with. The sessions are free…
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When September Comes
Riverside Writers Schools reopen and following a great visit to Chetham’s Library yesterday the Riverside Writers return to our weekly creative writing session in Rochdale Central Library every Thursday morning from 10am to 12noon. On Thursday 4th September Seamus Kelly will be running a workshop entitled “Fantastical” where we will be taking inspiration from a…
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Planning for September
Whilst Riverside Writers are having a little break from workshops during August we are still meeting on Thursday mornings to discuss, read, writer and share our creative writing. In September we will resume our weekly workshops and there are also new opportunities coming up: The Poetry Café events will resume at Coffee on the Corner…
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A research session Thursday 13th February 2025
In a change from our regular venue the Riverside Writers will be meeting from 10am to 12noon at the Rochdale Local Studies Unit, Norman Rd, Rochdale OL11 4HS. The aim of this week’s Riverside Writers session is to collect research about Rochdale and Lancashire which will help to inform writing at following sessions back in…
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Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year Riverside Writers wish you all a great festive season. We are taking a break but here are a couple of diary dates we are looking forward to: 29th December 3:00pm (until around 6pm) – Open mic at Vicolo del Vino in Rochdale with poetry music and dancing with Oakenhoof and…
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Powerful Poetry Correction
I’m sorry that an extra letter crept into a link on the previous post – the link for the Powerful Poetry Panel. the correct link is below: Powerful Poetry Panel from 3:00pm to 4:00pm – with details and booking through the link below. https://www.yourtrustrochdale.co.uk/whats-on/events/powerful-poetry-panel/